Twitter Coverage of the Lorne Genome Conference 2017

Neil Saunders
2017-08-02 21:42:14

Timeline

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Users

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The replies network

The mentions network

Network code

lorne_replies <- lorne %>%
  filter(!is.na(in_reply_to_status_screen_name)) %>%
  select(screen_name, in_reply_to_status_screen_name) %>%
  graph.data.frame(directed = TRUE)

V(lorne_replies)$label <- V(lorne_replies)$name
V(lorne_replies)$id    <- V(lorne_replies)$name


write_graph(lorne_replies, file = "lorne_replies.graphml", format = "graphml")
lorne_mentions <- lorne %>%
  filter(!is.na(mentions_screen_name)) %>%
  select(screen_name, mentions_screen_name) %>%
  mutate(mentions_screen_name = strsplit(mentions_screen_name, " ")) %>%
  unnest(mentions_screen_name) %>%
  graph.data.frame()

V(lorne_mentions)$label <- V(lorne_mentions)$name
V(lorne_mentions)$id    <- V(lorne_mentions)$name

write_graph(lorne_mentions, file = "lorne_mentions.graphml", format = "graphml")

Retweets

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Top 10 most retweeted: 1-5

screen_name text retweet_count
minouye271 Fab talk by @natar210 on creating a map of interactions b/n metabolome & immune gene networks in blood! #LorneGenome https://t.co/YiDhrAXEnK https://t.co/V66yimEQkT 19
sritchie73 This cockatoo finally managed to steal a caramel slice #LorneGenome https://t.co/rqfStYXnM0 18
AliciaOshlack 9 Aboriginal elders are authors on the DNA sequencing Nature paper #lorneGenome https://t.co/fTyFtb74rm 17
MerlinCrossley The polyA tail is not 'just a boring string of As - it can also contain Gs or Us' #lorneGenome https://t.co/SsuoNfCZAS 15
sjturn #lorneGenome Advice from bioinformatics workshop, if you plan to do large data expts, get buy in early from bioinformatician so design is 👍 14

Top 10 most retweeted: 6-10

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MerlinCrossley Genomics pioneer, world leader in sex determination, Jenny Graves receives the Julian Wells Medal #lorneGenome https://t.co/1PidlKiTgA 14
MelanieBahlo I'm at #lorneGenome & looking for two new postdocs. See job ads on the board. Looking forward to talking to interested individuals. 12
nanopore We are at #LorneGenome @genomeconf tomorrow at Booth #37 - and we're giving away a MinION! Come and see us to enter! 10
AliciaOshlack KN: economics of using genomics in childhood syndromes overwhelmingly supports exome sequencing tests https://t.co/IRomL9y9Ic #lorneGenome 9
AliciaOshlack Shelly Berger invites students to look at the epigenetics research going at Penn Epigenetics Institute #lorneGenome https://t.co/nOpmC09KKH 8

Favorites

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Top 10 most favorited: 1-5

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sritchie73 This cockatoo finally managed to steal a caramel slice #LorneGenome https://t.co/rqfStYXnM0 59
AliciaOshlack 9 Aboriginal elders are authors on the DNA sequencing Nature paper #lorneGenome https://t.co/fTyFtb74rm 35
AliciaOshlack Platypus has 10 sex chromosomes! #lorneGenome @ProfJennyGraves 25
qinqin_huang didn't expect it would be so great talking to people I don't know!! #LorneGenome https://t.co/qE2PLvGFN8 22
AliciaOshlack Yay!!! @hdashnow wins a poster prize at #lorneGenome 21

Top 10 most favorited: 6-10

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minouye271 What happens when u tell ur PhD student to just order a bunch of stuff @sritchie73 #LorneGenome https://t.co/xY7nvEhfwx 21
MerlinCrossley The polyA tail is not 'just a boring string of As - it can also contain Gs or Us' #lorneGenome https://t.co/SsuoNfCZAS 21
sjturn #lorneGenome Advice from bioinformatics workshop, if you plan to do large data expts, get buy in early from bioinformatician so design is 👍 20
MerlinCrossley Genomics pioneer, world leader in sex determination, Jenny Graves receives the Julian Wells Medal #lorneGenome https://t.co/1PidlKiTgA 18
minouye271 Fab talk by @natar210 on creating a map of interactions b/n metabolome & immune gene networks in blood! #LorneGenome https://t.co/YiDhrAXEnK https://t.co/V66yimEQkT 16

Quotes

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Top 10 most quoted: 1-5

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kathrynpenelope Ozren Bogdanovic is the winner of this year's Millenium Science Award for young researchers at #lorneGenome https://t.co/5lBdv7D2Jb 9
laura_boykin Hmmmm. Australia has some work to do too. Hello #manusisland & #nauru #lorneGenome #refugee https://t.co/4SjOQaUZJ1 4
lachlancoin I think @minouye271 currently winning this with two #lorneGenome preprints https://t.co/XYU1i6m3Lm 4
methylnick don't forget #biology the #bio in #bioinformatics #lornegenome #iamNOTaBioinformatician https://t.co/dCcu7V9l4o 3
methylnick Nice to put name to face. #lornegenome https://t.co/hqBPFCEZbK 3

Top 10 most quoted: 6-10

screen_name text quote_count
methylnick #lorneGenome next? I miss #lorne #Melbournian https://t.co/yx7yNSE8uB 2
AliciaOshlack Poster 111 tonight at #lorneGenome! Detecting pathogenic STR expansions with WGS by my PhD student @hdashnow https://t.co/Yi80CiLEH8 2
kathrynpenelope All the Cs by the Sea at #LorneGenome https://t.co/2VAomURTBJ 2
CSHeartResearch Well presented to an international crowd at #LorneGenome #HCM #ancestry https://t.co/BYdwJ6MzGS 2
minouye271 Awesome PhD student @qinqin_huang & her poster at #LorneGenome. Watch out for this one!! https://t.co/jXWjcDmYsX 2

Media

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A sizeable fraction (309 / 1538) of tweets have attached media files.

Most-liked media 1-5

screen_name text favorite_count
sritchie73 This cockatoo finally managed to steal a caramel slice #LorneGenome https://t.co/rqfStYXnM0 59
qinqin_huang didn't expect it would be so great talking to people I don't know!! #LorneGenome https://t.co/qE2PLvGFN8 22
minouye271 What happens when u tell ur PhD student to just order a bunch of stuff @sritchie73 #LorneGenome https://t.co/xY7nvEhfwx 21
MerlinCrossley The polyA tail is not 'just a boring string of As - it can also contain Gs or Us' #lorneGenome https://t.co/SsuoNfCZAS 21
MerlinCrossley Genomics pioneer, world leader in sex determination, Jenny Graves receives the Julian Wells Medal #lorneGenome https://t.co/1PidlKiTgA 18

Most-liked media 6-10

screen_name text favorite_count
minouye271 Fab talk by @natar210 on creating a map of interactions b/n metabolome & immune gene networks in blood! #LorneGenome https://t.co/YiDhrAXEnK https://t.co/V66yimEQkT 16
AliciaOshlack #lorneGenome twitterati meeting IRL https://t.co/wbEB31hqTu 15
natar210 @sritchie73 just won a poster award at #lorneGenome https://t.co/X3nYcvm1dK 15
LonsBio It's @mincle waaaaay out in front, @brian_gloss and @AliciaOshlack neck and neck as we head into the closing lecture. #lorneGenome https://t.co/S79nnhwVPN 15
astonegenome Taking genomics to heart with @CSHeartResearch @sbbross @rdbagnall @GarvanInstitute @kinghorngenomes #lorneGenome https://t.co/QzBUPsJqqs 15

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Tweet text

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Text of all non-retweets was tokenised to words. The conference hashtag, users screen names and recognisable components of URLs were removed from the word list before generation of the word cloud.
The word cloud contains the top 100 words with frequency > 3.

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